Quotes About Authority

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

President or Prime Minister are not any individuals. They are an institutions in itself, and in democracy, we should ensure that the dignity of the institutions is not lowered.

No prime minister, no government can expect to be unanswerable or unchallenged.

As far as I know, Kamala Haasan does not choose the prime minister of this country.

In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: 'I don't know' in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.

A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.

I'm the Princess of The Authority.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.

Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn't get away with much at home.

Muhammad Ali was my idol, and I always say, if Muhammad Ali had told me the exact same thing my mother, the principal, the security guard, my brothers... you know, the same thing they were telling me that I didn't listen to, I would have listened, just because it came from Muhammad Ali.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

It is a fundamental principle that every institution must be accountable to an authority which is independent of that institution. Yet somehow, the judiciary has propagated a view that the judiciary can only be accountable to itself.

The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.